Decentralised finance (DeFi)
CFTC’s Mersinger wants new rules for vertical silos
Republican commissioner shares Democrats’ concerns about combined FCMs and clearing houses
Podcast: Artur Sepp on rates volatility and decentralised finance
Quant says high volatility requires pricing and risk management models to be revisited
Isda’s fork provision gives crypto market plenty to chew over
Not everyone is happy with the discretion new digital definitions offer to calculation agents
Crypto gets to grips with interest rate swaps
New derivatives provide synthetic access to staking yields and are being used in structured products
Crypto structured products come of age
After some growing pains, the space is now offering the type of structures seen in TradFi equities markets
Podcast: Lipton on (un)stablecoins and FX market-making
Veteran quant has long warned about fundamental flaws in algorithmic stablecoins
Crypto market-maker B2C2 weighs US swap dealer registration
Isda AGM: Move would see firm become second crypto trading outfit to obtain designation
Crypto ‘Wild West’ needs a new sheriff – Iosco chief
Isda AGM: Moloney says it’s time to take crypto seriously, and firms need to find a way to engage with regulators
Automated market-making for fiat currencies
A framework to exchange fiat currencies on-chain consistently with off-chain prices is presented